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Tej Patel, Travis Hynson, John Melchior OUTLINE __Main Points__ __Literary Analysis__ __Reading Strategy__ __Significance__ __Connections__
 * Fred Collins a union soldier during the Civil War
 * Collins was thirsty, and was being taunted by his fellow soldiers
 * Collins then goes to his Captain and asks for permission to get some water from a well, meaning he would have to cross the battlefield
 * Fred Collins goes to the well, when he reaches he becomes extremely terrified
 * Collins fills up a bucket of water from the well and begins his journey back to his fellow soldiers
 * On his way back he comes across a wounded soldier, whom he gives some water to
 * He continues on his way back when he finally returns
 * Collins gives the bucket to his fellow soldiers and they horse around and drop the bucket with the water, losing all the water
 * Collins went through tremendous fear, and it all went to waste
 * Naturalism - an offshoot of realism; like realistic writers, naturalist sought to portray common people and ordinary life accurately
 * They also sought to describe the effect of natural and social forces suchs as instinct and environment on the individual
 * Visualizing - Forming mental pictures with the works
 * Ordinary people would do anything to survive
 * Civil War Era
 * Death/ injury
 * main characters all did something to risk their own well being for self gain